The Good Place, Season 1
The Good Place (2016-2020) is an American TV series, aired on NBC, about a woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is introduced to "The Good Place", a Heaven-like utopia, in reward for her righteous life. She realizes that she was sent there by mis… more »
Chidi:
You cannot kill Janet. Killing is one of the most famous moral no-nos.
Eleanor:
Janet is a nonhuman object who was sent here to help us, and the way she can help us is if we kill her. We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
Chidi:
Do you know who said that?
Eleanor:
Was it someone nice and great, like Oprah?
Chidi:
It was Machiavelli. A very non-Oprah-like figure.
Submitted by wikidude on June 03, 2024
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